Well otherkin as practiced by the vast majority of people anymore has lost a lot of it's mystic/spiritual meaning, because it's been hijacked by the type of crowd that swarms to tumblr, the people who do say they're anything to seem unique. Now the; "You being insulted is up to you, not me." That sort of thing always strikes me as a cop out, palming off one's own responsibility for being blatantly insensitive, while at the same time excusing not educating one's self.dirtysteve said:I know people who openly profess to be Dragonkin, doesn't make that real either. You being insulted is up to you, not me.
As for comparing to to the others, Transgender isn't a sexuality, it's a gender. Bisexuals and Homosexuals are categories that describe actual sexualities, not special subcategories that don't have any real distinction.
First of all transgender isn't a sexuality, it's also not a single gender. There are trans men, trans women, and tons of other gender identities that fall within the general spectrum of transgender, when transgender is used as an umbrella term. Although, non-binary as it's own umbrella term often crosses over with a lot of what is considered to be under the spectrum of transgender and visa versa. So transgender is not a a gender, it's a spectrum of non-cisgender gender identities, as is non-binary.
Speaking of sexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality are not just three standard check boxes that are randomly assigned, they're a spectrum to. Since erttheking already posted the Kinsey Scale, I'll quote it:
But to address the main point again:erttheking said:https://schnippits.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/kinsey-scale.png?w=645&h=231
Sexuality is a hell of a lot more complicated than "check the boxes of the genitals you like" So saying that being anything other than full gay is cowardly is a slap in the face to the LGBT crowd and evidence that you knowledge on sexuality is rather lacking. And lesbians are the cowards way out only if you use them as eye candy. Contrary to popular belief, women who like over women are not accepted, they're just seen as eye candy and plenty of men still try to sleep with lesbians. There's a difference between accepting someone for who they are, and just thinking what they're doing is hot without giving it any respect.
Anyways the reason I brought up gender identities, specifically transgender, along sexualities like homosexuality, bisexuality, and asexuality is for one reason. Plenty of people say that trans identities are invalid, fictional if you will, even homosexual people will say that transgender identities are fictional identities, that trans folk are just confused gay, or lesbian people. Tons of people also write off bisexuality and asexuality, while lots of heterosexuals do this, lesbian and gay folk also do it too. Essentially that's the same attitude you displayed by writing off pansexual folk, that was my initial point.dirtysteve said:As for comparing to to the others, Transgender isn't a sexuality, it's a gender.
You have given me one more thing to address:
This is an argument I've come to call; "the otherkin argument", and it's one of the most ignorant and insensitive ones I see on a regular basis. Now here you used it against pansexual folk, but it's also used to invalidate the lives and identities of trans folk, it's used to invalidate the sexuality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, and basically every sexuality that isn't heterosexual. The problem here is that there is scientific proof, growing scientific proof, that substantiates the existence of LGBTIQ+ folk. Because of that the otherkin argument is one used to back up a positiong of ignorance and an unwillingness to be educated at all, also it's used to back up prejudice and discrimination. So you can kinda see why that sort of talk irritates me. This doesn't mean I think that you're a transphobe, homophobe, or prejudice against people of various sexualities, gender identities, or what have you; however, you are propagating an argument that has done and is doing serious damage to people in the LGBTIQ+ spectrum. That's something I take issue with.dirtysteve said:I know people who openly profess to be Dragonkin, doesn't make that real either.
Edit: I should clarify, the reason the otherkin argument gets any credence is because there is no scientific evidence to back otherkin identities up at all.